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- Augustus Welby Pugin’s book Contrasts was one of the most famous and controversial contributions to the English Gothic Revival. It was a highly combative work because it viewed architecture and architectural history from a Catholic viewpoint at a time when Catholicism, in England, was felt to be a growing threat to the Protestant establishment.
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Oct 15, 2013 · Contrasts : or a parallel between the noble edifices of the middle ages, and corresponding buildings of the present day; shewing the present decay of taste. Accompanied by appropriate text by Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852
Contrasts. In 1836, Pugin published Contrasts, a polemical book which argued for the revival of the medieval Gothic style, and also "a return to the faith and the social structures of the Middle Ages".
Contrasts: Or, A Parallel Between the Noble Edifices of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries and Similar Buildings of the Present Day. Shewing the Present Decay of Taste. Accompanied by...
- Jan 24, 2008
- Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
- the University of Michigan
Jun 27, 2013 · First published in 1836, Contrasts is Pugin's most famous work, championing the medieval over the modern through satirical comparison of divergent styles. Reissued here in its substantially...
Dec 4, 2012 · When Phoebe Stanton died in 2003, her life's work, a monumental study of Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, remained unpublished. Stanton was emeritus professor of art history at Johns Hopkins University and the recipient of the College Art Association's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1980.
- Kathryn E. Holliday
- 2012
First published in 1836, Contrasts is Pugin's most famous work, championing the medieval over the modern through satirical comparison of divergent styles. Reissued here in its substantially revised second edition of 1841, the book reflects its author's Catholicism and a developing interpretation of Gothic architecture.
May 12, 2017 · Out with the New, In with the Old—Pugin’s Contrasts. The son of a Parisian architectural draughtsman who fled to London during the French Revolution, Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-52) became the seminal theoretician and practitioner of Gothic Revival architecture in England.
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